Using a pre-loaded scsi drive “as-is – Dell 3 User Manual

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PERC 3 BIOS Configuration Utility

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A device selection window displays the devices connected to the

current controller. The failed drives have FAIL indicators.

2

Press the arrow keys to highlight any failed drives to be rebuilt.,

3

Press the spacebar to select the desired physical drives for rebuild.

4

After you select the physical drives, press <F10>.

5

Select Yes at the prompt.
The indicators for the selected drives change to REBLD. Rebuilding

can take some time, depending on the number of drives selected and

the drive capacities.

6

When rebuild is complete, press any key to continue.

7

Press <Esc> to display the Management Menu.

Using a Pre-loaded SCSI Drive “As-is”

NOTE: To use a pre-

loaded system drive in the
manner described here,
you must make it the first
logical drive defined (for
example: LD1) on the
controller it is connected
to. This will make the
drive ID 0 LUN 0. If the
drive is not a boot device,
the logical drive number
is not critical.

You may have a SCSI hard drive that is already loaded with software. The
drive may be a boot disk containing an operating system. If so, add the
PERC device driver to this system drive before you switch to the PERC 3
and attempt to boot from it. You can use the PERC 3 controller as a SCSI
adapter for such a drive by performing the following steps.

1

Connect the SCSI drive to the channel on the PERC 3 controller, with

proper termination and TID settings.

2

Boot the computer.

3

Press <Ctrl><M> to start the BIOS Configuration Utility.

4

Select Configure—> Easy Configuration.

5

Press the cursor keys to select the pre-loaded drive.

6

Press the spacebar.
The pre-loaded drive should now become an array element.

7

Press <Enter>.
You have now declared the pre-loaded drive as a one-disk array. The

logical drive configuration screen displays.

8

Set the Read Policy on the Advanced Menu.

9

Set the Cache Policy on the Advanced Menu.

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